THE HOLY BIBLE (Young's Literal Translation) Isaiah

1:1: The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.
1:3: An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
1:4: Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.
1:5: Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.
1:6: From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.
1:7: Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
1:8: And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.
1:9: Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly -- as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!
1:10: Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,
1:11: `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.
1:12: When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?
1:13: Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!
1:14: Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.
1:15: And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
1:16: Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
1:17: Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.
1:18: Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
1:19: If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
1:20: And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, By the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
1:21: How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it with judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.
1:22: Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.
1:23: Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
1:24: Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,
1:25: And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,
1:26: And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'
1:27: Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.
1:28: And the destruction of transgressors and sinners is together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.
1:29: For men are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.
1:30: For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.
1:31: And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!

Chapter 2

2:1: The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2:2: And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations.
2:3: And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
2:4: And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.
2:5: O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.'
2:6: For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.
2:7: And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots,
2:8: And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,
2:9: And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.
2:10: Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency.
2:11: The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
2:12: For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,
2:13: And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,
2:14: And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,
2:15: And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,
2:16: And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures.
2:17: And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
2:18: And the idols -- they completely pass away.
2:19: And men have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.
2:20: In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,
2:21: To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.
2:22: Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

Chapter 3

3:1: For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.
3:2: Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,
3:3: Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.
3:4: And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
3:5: And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
3:6: When one layeth hold on his brother, Of the house of his father, by the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin is under thy hand.'
3:7: He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'
3:8: For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
3:9: The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.
3:10: Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.
3:11: Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
3:12: My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
3:13: Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.
3:14: Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses.
3:15: What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
3:16: `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,
3:17: The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.
3:18: In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,
3:19: Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20: Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
3:21: Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,
3:22: Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,
3:23: Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,
3:24: And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.
3:25: For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.
3:26: And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

5:1: Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
5:2: And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
5:3: And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
5:4: What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
5:5: And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
5:6: And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
5:7: Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
5:8: Wo to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
5:9: By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
5:10: For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
5:11: Wo to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
5:12: And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
5:13: Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
5:14: Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.
5:15: And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,
5:16: And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
5:17: And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
5:18: Wo to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart -- sin.
5:19: Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'
5:20: Wo to those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
5:21: Wo to the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!
5:22: Wo to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
5:23: Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.
5:24: Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
5:25: Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!
5:26: And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.
5:27: There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.
5:28: Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!
5:29: Its roaring is like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.
5:30: And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

Chapter 6

6:1: In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.
6:2: Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flieth.
6:3: And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.'
6:4: And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.
6:5: And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'
6:6: And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken it from off the altar,)
6:7: and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'
6:8: And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, `Here am I, send me.'
6:9: And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.
6:10: Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'
6:11: And I say, `Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,
6:12: And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great is the forsaken part in the heart of the land.
6:13: And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed is its substance!'

Chapter 7

7:1: And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it.
7:2: And it is declared to the house of David, saying, `Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,' And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.
7:3: And Jehovah saith unto Isaiah, `Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, unto the end of the conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller's field,
7:4: and thou hast said unto him: `Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and Aram, And the son of Remaliah.
7:5: Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
7:6: We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son of Tabeal.
7:7: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!
7:8: For the head of Aram is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from being a people.
7:9: And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If ye do not give credence, Surely ye are not stedfast.'
7:10: And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:
7:11: `Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make it high upwards.'
7:12: And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'
7:13: And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?
7:14: Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,
7:15: Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.
7:16: For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
7:17: Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.
7:18: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that is in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, And for a bee that is in the land of Asshur.
7:19: And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.
7:20: In that day doth the Lord shave, By a razor that is hired beyond the river, By the king of Asshur, The head, and the hair of the feet, Yea, also the beard it consumeth.
7:21: And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,
7:22: And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.
7:23: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.
7:24: With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.
7:25: And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

Chapter 8

8:1: And Jehovah saith unto me, `Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.'
8:2: And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
8:3: And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
8:4: for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'
8:5: And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:
8:6: `Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
8:7: Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
8:8: And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!
8:9: Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
8:10: Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
8:11: For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
8:12: `Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.
8:13: Jehovah of Hosts -- Him ye do sanctify, And He is your Fear, and He your Dread,
8:14: And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
8:15: And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
8:16: Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.
8:17: And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.
8:18: Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, Are for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.
8:19: And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the dead!
8:20: To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
8:21: -- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.
8:22: And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

Chapter 9

9:1: As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
9:2: The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.
9:3: Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As men rejoice in their apportioning spoil.
9:4: Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
9:5: For every battle of a warrior is with rushing, and raiment rolled in blood, And it hath been for burning -- fuel of fire.
9:6: For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
9:7: To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
9:8: A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel.
9:9: And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,
9:10: `Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
9:11: And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,
9:12: Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, And they devour Israel with the whole mouth. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
9:13: And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.
9:14: And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,
9:15: Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.
9:16: And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.
9:17: Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
9:18: For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
9:19: In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his brother hath no pity,
9:20: And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.
9:21: Manasseh -- Ephraim, and Ephraim -- Manasseh, Together they are against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His anger. And still His hand is stretched out!

Chapter 10

10:1: Wo to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
10:2: To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
10:3: And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? -- from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?
10:4: Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
10:5: Wo to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.
10:6: Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
10:7: And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.
10:8: For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?
10:9: Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10: As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, Greater than Jerusalem and than Samaria,
10:11: Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?
10:12: And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.
10:13: For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
10:14: And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I -- I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'
10:15: -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
10:16: Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.
10:17: And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.
10:18: And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.
10:19: And the rest of the trees of his forest are few, And a youth doth write them.
10:20: And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21: A remnant returneth -- a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.
10:22: For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing with righteousness.
10:23: For a consumption that is determined, The Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is making in the midst of all the land.
10:24: Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.
10:25: For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.
10:26: And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod is over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.
10:27: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.
10:28: He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.
10:29: They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.
10:30: Cry aloud with thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.
10:31: Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.
10:32: Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.
10:33: Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are become low,
10:34: And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!

Chapter 11

11:1: And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.
11:2: Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah.
11:3: To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.
11:4: And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.
11:5: And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.
11:6: And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
11:7: And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
11:8: And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.
11:9: Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.
11:10: And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!
11:11: And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord addeth a second time his power, To get the remnant of His people that is left, From Asshur, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Cush, And from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from isles of the sea,
11:12: And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.
11:13: And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.
11:14: And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines westward, Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, And sons of Ammon obeying them.
11:15: And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams, And hath caused men to tread it with shoes.
11:16: And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

13:1: The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:
13:2: `On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles.
13:3: I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine excellency.'
13:4: A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle!
13:5: They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.
13:6: Howl ye, for near is the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh.
13:7: Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.
13:8: And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they marvel, The appearance of flames -- their faces!
13:9: Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.
13:10: For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
13:11: And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
13:12: I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.
13:13: Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.
13:14: And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.
13:15: Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.
13:16: And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
13:17: Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.
13:18: And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
13:19: And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God, With Sodom and with Gomorrah.
13:20: She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie not down there.
13:21: And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there.
13:22: And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come is her time, And her days are not drawn out!

Chapter 14

14:1: Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.
14:2: And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.
14:3: And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,
14:4: That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
14:5: Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.
14:6: He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!
14:7: At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth into singing.
14:8: Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- saying: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.
14:9: Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.
14:10: All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!
14:11: Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.
14:12: How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
14:13: And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
14:14: I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.
14:15: Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.
14:16: Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
14:17: He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
14:18: All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,
14:19: And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.
14:20: Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.
14:21: Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.
14:22: And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.
14:23: And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
14:24: Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought -- so hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;
14:25: To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.
14:26: This is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.
14:27: For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'
14:28: In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
14:29: Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit is a flying saraph.
14:30: And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.
14:31: Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none alone in his set places.
14:32: And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'

Chapter 15

15:1: The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of Moab -- It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was Kir of Moab -- It hath been cut off.
15:2: He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places -- to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads is baldness, every beard cut off.
15:3: In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.
15:4: And cry doth Heshbon and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz heard hath been their voice, Therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout, His life hath been grievous to him.
15:5: My heart is toward Moab, Cry do her fugitives unto Zoar, a heifer of the third year, For -- the ascent of Luhith -- With weeping he goeth up in it, For, in the way of Horonaim, A cry of destruction they wake up.
15:6: For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.
15:7: Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry.
15:8: For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim is its howling, And to Beer-Elim is its howling.
15:9: For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, For I set on Dimon additions, For the escaped of Moab a lion, And for the remnant of Adamah!

Chapter 16

16:1: Send ye a lamb to the ruler of the land, From Selah in the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2: And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, at fords of Arnon.
16:3: Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.
16:4: Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed the treaders down out of the land.
16:5: And established in kindness is the throne, And one hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
16:6: We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right are his devices.
16:7: Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.
16:8: Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.
16:9: Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I water thee with my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For -- for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, The shouting hath fallen.
16:10: And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to cease.
16:11: Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.
16:12: And it hath come to pass, when it hath been seen, That weary hath been Moab on the high place, And he hath come unto his sanctuary to pray, And is not able.
16:13: This is the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from that time,
16:14: And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, `In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant is little, small, not mighty!'

Chapter 17

17:1: The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from being a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
17:2: Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
17:3: And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
17:4: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.
17:5: And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,
17:6: And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch, Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!
17:7: In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,
17:8: And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the shrines and the images.
17:9: In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.
17:10: Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,
17:11: In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
17:12: Wo to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
17:13: Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
17:14: At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This is the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

Chapter 18

18:1: Ho, land shadowed with wings, That is beyond the rivers of Cush,
18:2: That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.
18:3: All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.
18:4: For thus said Jehovah unto me, `I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5: For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath one cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.
18:6: They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.
18:7: At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!'

Chapter 19

19:1: The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
19:2: And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought, each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.
19:3: And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.
19:4: And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
19:5: And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
19:6: And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
19:7: Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.
19:8: And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
19:9: And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of net-works.
19:10: And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages are afflicted in soul.
19:11: Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'
19:12: Where are they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!
19:13: Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.
19:14: Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
19:15: And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.
19:16: In that day is Egypt like women, And it hath mourned, and been afraid, Because of the waving of the hand of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is waving over it.
19:17: And the land of Judah hath been to Egypt for a cause of staggering, Every one who doth mention it, for himself feareth, Because of the counsel of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is counselling against it.
19:18: In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, `The city of destruction,' is said of one.
19:19: In that day there is an altar to Jehovah In the midst of the land of Egypt, And a standing pillar near its border to Jehovah,
19:20: And it hath been for a sign and for a testimony, To Jehovah of Hosts in the land of Egypt, For they cry unto Jehovah from the face of oppressors, And He sendeth to them a saviour, Even a great one, and hath delivered them.
19:21: And known hath been Jehovah to Egypt, And the Egyptians have known Jehovah in that day, And done sacrifice and present, And vowed a vow to Jehovah, and completed it.
19:22: And Jehovah hath smitten Egypt, smiting and healing, And they have turned back unto Jehovah, And He hath been entreated of them, And hath healed them.
19:23: In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians.
19:24: In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth.
19:25: In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, `Blessed is My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur, And Mine inheritance -- Israel!'

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

21:1: The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.
21:2: A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.
21:3: Therefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
21:4: Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
21:5: Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
21:6: For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'
21:7: And he hath seen a chariot -- a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention -- He hath increased attention!
21:8: And he crieth -- a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights.
21:9: And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.' And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth.
21:10: O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'
21:11: The burden of Dumah. Unto me is one calling from Seir `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'
21:12: The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'
21:13: The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim.
21:14: To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.
21:15: For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.
21:16: For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.
21:17: And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'

Chapter 22

22:1: The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?
22:2: Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.
22:3: All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.
22:4: Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'
22:5: For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of perplexity, is to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.
22:6: And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men -- horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.
22:7: And it cometh to pass, The choice of thy valleys have been full of chariots, And the horsemen place themselves diligently at the gate.
22:8: And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,
22:9: And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,
22:10: And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.
22:11: And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.
22:12: And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
22:13: And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
22:14: And revealed it hath been in mine ears, By Jehovah of Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
22:15: Thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts: `Go, enter in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house:
22:16: What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.
22:17: Lo, Jehovah is casting thee up and down, A casting up and down, O mighty one,
22:18: And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour Are the shame of the house of thy lord.
22:19: And I have thrust thee from thy station, And from thine office he throweth thee down.
22:20: And it hath come to pass, in that day, That I have called to my servant, To Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
22:21: And I have clothed him with thy coat, And with thy girdle I strengthen him, And thy garment I give into his hand, And he hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah.
22:22: And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.
22:23: And I have fixed him a nail in a stedfast place, And he hath been for a throne of honour To the house of his father.
22:24: And they have hanged on him All the honour of the house of his father, The offspring and the issue, All vessels of small quality, From vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons.
22:25: In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Moved is the nail that is fixed In a stedfast place, Yea, it hath been cut down, and hath fallen, And cut off hath been the burden that is on it, For Jehovah hath spoken!'

Chapter 23

23:1: The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.
23:2: Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.
23:3: And in many waters is the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook is her increase, And she is a mart of nations.
23:4: Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.'
23:5: As at the report of Egypt they are pained, So at the report of Tyre.
23:6: Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,
23:7: Is this your exulting one? From the days of old is her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.
23:8: Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders are princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'
23:9: Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.
23:10: Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
23:11: His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.
23:12: And He saith, `Thou dost not add any more to exult, O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Zidon, To Chittim arise, pass over, Even there -- there is no rest for thee.'
23:13: Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a ruin!
23:14: Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.
23:15: And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
23:16: Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17: And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
23:18: And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!

Chapter 24

24:1: Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.
24:2: And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself.
24:3: Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:
24:4: Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.
24:5: And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
24:6: Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.
24:7: Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
24:8: Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.
24:9: With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.
24:10: It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
24:11: A cry over the wine is in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.
24:12: Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.
24:13: When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,
24:14: They -- they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.
24:15: Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.
24:16: From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, wo is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
24:17: Fear, and a snare, and a gin, Are on thee, O inhabitant of the land.
24:18: And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.
24:19: Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
24:20: Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.
24:21: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.
24:22: And they have been gathered -- A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
24:23: And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders -- honour!

Chapter 25

25:1: O Jehovah, my God art Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.
25:2: For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.
25:3: Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.
25:4: For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible is as a storm -- a wall.
25:5: As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.
25:6: And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
25:7: And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.
25:8: He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.
25:9: And one hath said in that day, `Lo, this is our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This is Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
25:10: For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.
25:11: And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands.
25:12: And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused it to come to the earth, -- unto dust.

Chapter 26

26:1: In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.
26:2: Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.
26:3: An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace! For in Thee it is confident.
26:4: Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah is a rock of ages,
26:5: For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it to come unto the dust,
26:6: Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the weak.
26:7: The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
26:8: Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.
26:9: With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
26:10: The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.
26:11: O Jehovah, high is Thy hand -- they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire -- Thine adversaries, consumeth them.
26:12: O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.
26:13: O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.
26:14: Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.
26:15: Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah, Thou hast added to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off all the ends of earth.
26:16: O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement is on them.
26:17: When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah.
26:18: We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
26:19: `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
26:20: Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.
26:21: For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

Chapter 27

27:1: In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.
27:2: In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,
27:3: I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!
27:4: Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
27:5: Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.
27:6: Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world with increase.
27:7: As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?
27:8: In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,
27:9: Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this is all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.
27:10: For the fenced city is alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.
27:11: In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
27:12: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.
27:13: And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!

Chapter 28

28:1: Wo to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That is on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.
28:2: Lo, a mighty and strong one is to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3: By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
28:4: And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That is on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it is yet in his hand he swalloweth it.
28:5: In that day is Jehovah of Hosts For a crown of beauty, and for a diadem of glory, To the remnant of His people.
28:6: And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might to those turning back the battle to the gate.
28:7: And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.
28:8: For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!
28:9: By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,
28:10: For rule is on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,
28:11: For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.
28:12: Unto whom He hath said, `This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,
28:13: And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
28:14: Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that is in Jerusalem.
28:15: Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
28:16: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
28:17: And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
28:18: And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
28:19: From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.
28:20: For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.
28:21: For as at mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As at the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange is His work, And to do His deed -- strange is His deed.'
28:22: And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is for all the land.
28:23: Give ear, and hear my voice, Attend, and hear my saying:
28:24: The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
28:25: Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie in its own border?
28:26: And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.
28:27: For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.
28:28: Bread-corn is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed it hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
28:29: Even this from Jehovah of Hosts hath gone out, He hath made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!

Chapter 29

29:1: Wo to Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.
29:2: And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
29:3: And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
29:4: And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,
29:5: And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.
29:6: By Jehovah of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind, And flame of devouring fire.
29:7: And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
29:8: And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty is his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.
29:9: Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.
29:10: For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.
29:11: And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it is sealed;'
29:12: And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'
29:13: And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!
29:14: Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'
29:15: Wo to those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'
29:16: Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'
29:17: Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
29:18: And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
29:19: And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.
29:20: For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
29:21: Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
29:22: Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,
29:23: For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.
29:24: And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'

Chapter 30

30:1: Wo to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.
30:2: Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
30:3: And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
30:4: For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.
30:5: All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
30:6: The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence are viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.
30:7: Yea, Egyptians are vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: `Their strength is to sit still.'
30:8: No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,
30:9: That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.
30:10: Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
30:11: Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'
30:12: Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
30:13: Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
30:14: And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.
30:15: For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
30:16: And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
30:17: One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.
30:18: And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment is Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
30:19: For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.
30:20: And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,
30:21: And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.
30:22: And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.
30:23: And He hath given rain for thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.
30:24: And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
30:25: And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.
30:26: And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah's binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.
30:27: Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue is as a devouring fire.
30:28: And His breath is as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, Is on the jaws of the peoples.
30:29: Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.
30:30: And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.
30:31: For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.
30:32: And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.
30:33: For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile is fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!

Chapter 31

31:1: Wo to those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.
31:2: And He also is wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
31:3: And the Egyptians are men, and not God, And their horses are flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.
31:4: For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.
31:5: As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.'
31:6: Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.
31:7: For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.
31:8: And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.
31:9: And to his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!

Chapter 32

32:1: Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.
32:2: And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
32:3: And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.
32:4: And the heart of those hastened Understandeth to know, And the tongue of stammerers hasteth to speak clearly.
32:5: A fool is no more called `noble,' And to a miser it is not said, `rich;'
32:6: For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.
32:7: And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
32:8: And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.
32:9: Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear to my saying,
32:10: Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.
32:11: Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
32:12: For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
32:13: Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,
32:14: Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;
32:15: Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.
32:16: And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.
32:17: And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness -- Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.
32:18: And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.
32:19: And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
32:20: Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

Chapter 33

33:1: Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.
33:2: O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.
33:3: From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.
33:4: And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.
33:5: Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion with judgment and righteousness,
33:6: And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it is His treasure.
33:7: Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.
33:8: Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.
33:9: Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.
33:10: Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
33:11: Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.
33:12: And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
33:13: Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye near ones, My might.
33:14: Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?
33:15: Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,
33:16: He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
33:17: A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.
33:18: Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where is he who is counting? Where is he who is weighing? Where is he who is counting the towers?
33:19: The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.
33:20: See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.
33:21: But there mighty is Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.
33:22: For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.
33:23: Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.
33:24: Nor doth an inhabitant say, `I was sick,' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!

Chapter 34

34:1: Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.
34:2: For wrath is to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.
34:3: And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.
34:4: And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.
34:5: For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.
34:6: A sword is to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice is to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7: And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.
34:8: (For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
34:9: And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.
34:10: By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.
34:11: And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.
34:12: To the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.
34:13: And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble are in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.
34:14: And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.
34:15: There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.
34:16: Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.
34:17: And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned it to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!

Chapter 35

35:1: They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,
35:2: Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, with joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.
35:3: Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
35:4: Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
35:5: Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,
35:6: Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.
35:7: And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.
35:8: And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
35:9: No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,
35:10: And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

Chapter 36

36:1: And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.
36:2: And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field,
36:3: and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.
36:4: And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What is this confidence in which thou hast confided?
36:5: I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might are for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?
36:6: `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed -- on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it -- so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
36:7: `And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?
36:8: `And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.
36:9: And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
36:10: And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'
36:11: And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants in Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us in Jewish, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.'
36:12: And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men -- those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?'
36:13: And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice in Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:
36:14: Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;
36:15: and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
36:16: `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,
36:17: till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
36:18: lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
36:19: Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20: Who among all the gods of these lands are they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
36:21: And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
36:22: And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.

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Chapter 1